Whoopwhoop.
What are you talking about? The BA pay scale does not go from 1 to 28 as every REAL BA pilot will know.
The pension issue is not yet cut and dried, BALPA have yet to issue a ballot but have promised that the members will be consulted.
BA SH out earn Easy by some way. I'm BA LHS and my brother is Easy LHS. Whilst I never take home less than £5k a month (much more with draft) his take home is nearer £4k. We both work hard, as do all pilots these days. I certainly feel less tired than when on the -400.
The starting pay is much better now for new joiners than it has ever been. The basic has been increased and the variable pay is no longer tied to seniority as much as it used to be.
However I agree that the time to command is going to be very long. Assuming a retirement age of 55 nobody who joins BA who is older than 30 will ever get a LH command. The wait for a SH command will be AT LEAST 15 years. (Unless LGW comes good with the 'bus expansion). But that makes perfect sense, if the average carrer is 30 years and 50% of crew are Captains then on average it will take 15 years to get a command. If the CRA goes up then it could be much longer. But things always change in this biz.